National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
A History of the World in 100 Objects panel discussion
Date recorded: 11 October 2016.
What objects from the past reveal about the people who made them and the challenges for museums to preserve and share collections spanning two million years of human…
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Defining Moments in sports panel discussion
Date recorded: 18 August 2016.
What Australia's love of sport says about us a nation, how it has shaped our culture and whether sport is a vehicle for social change. Part of the Defining Moments in…
Wed 21 Sep 2016
New Encounters David Garneau keynote presentation
Date recorded: 18 March 2016.
Métis artist and academic David Garneau's 'From artefact necropolis to living rooms: Indigenous and at home in non-colonial museums', on the importance of First Nation…
00:35:22 |
Wed 21 Sep 2016
New Encounters Jim Enote keynote presentation
Date recorded: 18 March 2016.
Zuni tribal member and museum director Jim Enote on his life working in cultural heritage in terms of seasons, and the current flowering of ideas and practices planted…
00:26:12 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
New Encounters public panel discussion
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
Distinguished First Nations people from Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia discuss the negotiation between their traditions and their place in the mo…
00:49:30 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
New Encounters Jennifer Kramer keynote presentation
Date recorded: 17 March 2016.
Jennifer Kramer on 'Indigenous cultural belongings in the museum and the work of figurative repatriation', where museums and First Nations peoples work together to sha…
00:34:55 |
Sun 18 Sep 2016
New Encounters Mathew Trinca keynote presentation
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
Museum director Mathew Trinca on the strength and potency of objects in the Encounters exhibition, their impact on Indigenous and non-Indigenous people today and how m…
00:23:59 |
Thu 15 Sep 2016
New Encounters Richard West Jr keynote presentation
Date recorded: 16 March 2016.
Cheyenne Arapaho citizen and museum director Richard West Jr on the impact of repatriation legislation on museums and Native communities in the United States and what …
00:27:02 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
New Encounters June Oscar keynote presentation
Date recorded: 17 March 2016.
Bunuba woman and Indigenous leader June Oscar on the new relationship between Indigenous people and museums and the spirit of reconciliation reawakened by equal partne…
00:40:45 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
Remembering Fred Hollows
Date recorded: 20 May 2016.
Recollections of surgeon and humanitarian Fred Hollows and his work to improve health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, on the 40th anniversary of th…
Mon 11 Jul 2016
Landmark women: Diane Kargas AM
Date recorded: 20 November 2015.
Diane on family, community, philanthropy, tackling homelessness, supporting carers and charities and making a difference.
Sun 13 Dec 2015
Landmark women: Robyn Hendry
Date recorded: 21 August 2015.
Robyn on business, tourism, the growth of the capital over 30 years and Canberra career women hitting their stride.
00:53:53 |
Sun 13 Dec 2015
Landmark women: Christine Waring
Date recorded: 23 October 2015.
Christine describes her love of hats, learning and teaching millinery, opening her studio and working in Australia and overseas. Includes an appraisal of the latest …
00:43:45 |
Wed 04 Nov 2015
Landmark women: Dr Judy West
Date recorded: 18 September 2015.
Judy talks about her love of the country and her work as a botanist across Australia and at CSIRO and the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Landmark women: Marion Le AM
Date recorded: 19 June 2015.
Marion talks about growing up in New Zealand, her passion for teaching and multiculturalism and her continuing work with migrants and refugees.
Thu 10 Sep 2015
Internment during World War I in Australia
Date recorded: 7 August 2015.
Nadine Helmi (author of The Enemy At Home: German internees in WW 1 Australia) and curator Jono Lineen discussed internment in general and the internment of Germans in…
00:45:22 |
Sun 06 Sep 2015
The August Offensives on Gallipoli and their echoes in Australia
Date recorded: 7 August 2015.
Senior historian and curator Brad Manera gave the keynote address re-examining some of the key battles at Gallipoli, and how information about the fate of casualties w…
00:55:57 |
Sun 06 Sep 2015
Censorship, suffering, and shellshock in World War I reporting
Date recorded: 7 August 2015.
Janda Gooding introduced the theme of this session before Fay Anderson discussed Australian war correspondents who reported on and also experienced physical and psycho…
00:47:50 |
Sun 06 Sep 2015
War and Peace on the Home Front
Date recorded: 7 August 2015.
Melanie Oppenheimer discussed the role of volunteers and in particular the Australian Red Cross during the First World War. Bart Ziino discussed the conscription debat…
00:43:56 |
Sun 06 Sep 2015
The Shattered Anzac
Date recorded: 7 August 2015.
Katy Mutton discussed her artwork on the history of the soldier settlements in Red Cliffs, Victoria. Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen examined the notion of the shattered An…
00:43:25 |
Sun 06 Sep 2015
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